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Mrs. P found this as well. Embarrasing.

Opened as a museum, this place is stunning. When you spend £13million on a pit, this is what you get, almost begs the question, why not spend it on a working pit......

Nothing underground, but 13 of the 39 surface buildings remain.

Woodhorn Colliery

The centre is meant to look like a coal cutting machine:

















This what did it for me. Tucked away in a corner, is a wooden cupboard, open the doors is a model of the shaft sinking, with a drawing on each door of the shaft, lining, tubbing and strata.

It was presented by "Cementation, Bentley Works", We lived at Bentley (nr Doncaster), and bought our first house from Cementation Northern Ideal Homes.